<p> Imagery, Personification, and Figures of Speech Teacher: Denise Hollister School: Bakersfield High School</p><p>Content Area Standard: 3.4 Analyze imagery, personification, figures of speech </p><p>Literacy Standard: Reading, writing to learn</p><p>Instructional Objectives . How to select the most important line of poem  Definition of what is . How to write clearly to be taught and . How to predict how a past writer views modern objects learned</p><p>Reading Strategies . Read each poem three times . Read poem as a pair, select one line . Discuss and write about why that line is so important</p><p>Curriculum Poems- American Poets  Lesson Content</p><p>Instructional Delivery . Students read silently several poems on a sheet  Procedures . In pairs, students read over poem together and select the most important line  Strategies . Students write paragraphs on what the most important line means to them . *Use the small packets to work in pairs</p><p>Evidence/Assessment Written quickwrites daily</p><p>Accommodations . Teacher reads the poems with the class.  Reading difficulties . Have dictionaries in their language to define unfamiliar vocabulary-All can  Advanced learners write how Shakespeare would respond to a modern poem.  English learners</p><p>Text . Sheet of poems from the textbook Instructional Materials . Overhead . White board</p>